Vocabulary Learned!

Deforestation- To cut down and clear away the trees or forests in an area.

Carbon Dioxide- a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas CO2, present in the atmosphere and formed during respiration, usually obtained from coal, coke, or natural gas by combustion, from carbohydrates by fermentation, by reaction of acid with limestone or other carbonates, or naturally from springs: used extensively in industry as dry ice, or carbon dioxide snow, in carbonated beverages, fire extinguishers, etc.

Tree- a plant having a permanently woody main stem or trunk, ordinarily growing to a considerable height, and usually developing branches at some distance from the ground.
Deciduous: shedding the leaves annually, as certain trees and shrubs.

Coniferous- Any of various mostly needle-leaved or scale-leaved, chiefly evergreen, cone-bearing gymnospermous trees or shrubs such as pines, spruces and firs.

Rainforest- a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.

Gymnospermous- a plant such, as a cycad or conifer, whose seeds are not enclosed within an ovary.
Emission- an act where a substance of some sort is emitted. For example carbon dioxide is emitted into the atmosphere

Biomass- The number of life living in a certain habitat, expressed as the volume of organisms per volume of habitat, or as the weight of organisms per unit area.
Swidden Agriculture- A specific area that is completely cleared for temporary planting and plowing (cultivation) and then burning the vegetation
Biotic/Biota- the animals, plants, fungi, etc., of a region or period, pertaining to life.
Photorespiration- the oxidation of carbohydrates in many higher plants in which they get oxygen from light and then release carbon dioxide, somewhat different from photosynthesis
　
Forest degradation- the act of degrading and forest. Also can be natural effect as land can wear down due to weather, sort of like erosion.